What is prioritizing?

Prioritizing means using your strategic thinking, long-range vision and knowledge of your leader’s priorities and business objectives to see and determine which tasks are more important at each moment. You give those tasks more of your attention, energy and time. You focus on what is important at the expense of lower value activities. Prioritizing is about making choices of what to do and what not to do. To prioritize effectively you need to be able to recognize what is important, as well as to see the difference between urgent and important. And, it means recognizing that at any moment your A1+ hot priority is supplemented by a new and more urgent A1++ priority! [Read more…]